| Glenn Youngkin spent little of his campaign for governor talking about the pandemic, particularly in the weeks leading up to the election. Come January, when Virginia could be experiencing another surge, what will the political neophyte's COVID-19 response look like? Â Read more in this Sunday's Main News section Across Hampton Roads, school districts are canceling days of in-person classes and adding asynchronous days to the calendar. Itâs not about COVID cases. Itâs about fighting teacher burnout. âWhat we are trying to do is give teachers planning time,â Chief Schools Officer Eugene Soltner told the Virginia Beach School Board in an Oct. 26 meeting. That night, the board voted in favor of creating early dismissals on several upcoming Wednesdays. Suffolk has also added early-dismissal Wednesdays to their calendar. Other districts including Hampton, Newport News and Portsmouth have given students the entire week of Thanksgiving off from in-person classes. And Virginia Beach has paused nonessential professional development sessions that take place during the school day. Will it be enough? Read more in the Sunday Main News section Sometimes Walter Chrysler Jr. looked red carpet-ready, sporting a patterned sports coat, dress slacks and a shiny pair of dress shoes to match. Other times, he blended in as he stopped to talk to visitors at the Chrysler Museum of Art, then known as the Norfolk Museum of Arts & Sciences. Heâd watch from a corner as schoolchildren peered at the masterpieces as docents like Catherine Jordan Wass showed them around. Wass started as a volunteer and worked her way up before retiring as Chryslerâs deputy director in 2011. âThat was always so poignant for me,â she said about the way he watched the kids. âIt was because of him that those children were looking at that masterpiece. I could tell that he was sincerely touched by it.â Chrysler, the son of car manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler, spent his life collecting from artists such as Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. In 1971, Chrysler donated his collection to Norfolkâs museum. It was worth $60 million to $80 million, and he and his wife eventually gifted more than 25,000 pieces and helped the museum gain worldwide recognition, especially in glass art. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the initial donation, the Chrysler is opening the âBuilding a Legacy: Chrysler Collects for the Futureâ exhibition on Nov. 19. The show includes gifts from local collectors such as Meredith and Brother Rutter, who have promised eight pieces of contemporary art from Glenn Ligon, McArthur Binion and others. Read more in the Sunday Break section
Portsmouth native Missy Elliott is an artist with few peers or precedents, a wildly innovative singer-songwriter-producer and music video pioneer of the past quarter century. She and longtime collaborator Timbaland, another Hampton Roads native, reshaped the sound of hip-hop. They made songs out of pings, bips and bloops â vocal and electronic â that became âThe Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),â âWork It,â âGet Ur Freak On,â along with hits for Aaliyah, Whitney Houston, Beyoncé (solo and with Destinyâs Child) and more than a hundred features, guest appearances and others. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2019, the first female hip-hop artist to be. Elliott received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday.
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Donât be surprised if you see a couple cousins dressed in lobster costumes waving to passersby in front of the newly opened Masonâs Famous Lobster Rolls on Shore Drive in Virginia Beach. While 5-year-old Cooper and 6-year-old Logan arenât old enough to work in the family business just yet, they are part of the multigenerational endeavor owned by their parents and grandparents. Masonâs Famous Lobster Rolls, an Annapolis, Maryland-based franchise founded in 2014, opened its first Hampton Roads location Nov. 12. The chainâs free-standing restaurant at 3273 Shore Drive is in the former Sugar Shack spot, which underwent a complete transformation of the 2,500-square-foot layout. Read more in the Work & Money section
Tom Brady and the reigning Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers return to the site of their first wild-card victory in last seasonâs playoffs looking like a title contender once again. Losing six of eight games this year has washed away most of Washingtonâs optimism in the wake of that close defeat with little hope of salvaging 2021. The 6-2 Buccaneers are rolling and trying not to take what should be an easy victory Sunday for granted. FanDuel Sportsbook has them as 9½-point favorites. âThereâs no guarantees in the league here,â Brady said. âThereâs no easy games. You canât roll your helmet out there and think youâre going to win.â Washington gave Tampa Bay a bit of a scare in January, starting Taylor Heinicke at quarterback in place of injured veteran Alex Smith and sacking Brady three times but falling short 31-23. Heinicke is back as the starter without the element of surprise this time â after his performance with one passing and one rushing touchdown earned him a two-year contract. Read more in the Sunday Sports section
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